Kurt Gerron
Kurt Gerron | |
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Born | |
Died | 30 October 1944 | (aged 47)
Occupation(s) | Actor, film director |
Years active | 1920–1944 |
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Kurt Gerron (11 May 1897 – 30 October 1944) was a German Jewish actor and film director. He and his wife, Olga, were murdered in the Holocaust.
Life
Born Kurt Gerson into a well-off merchant family in
Gerron's popular cinema breakthrough came with The Blue Angel (Der Blaue Engel, 1930) opposite Marlene Dietrich. Two years before, Gerron originated the role of "Tiger" Brown in the 1928 premiere production of The Threepenny Opera (Die Dreigroschenoper) at the Berlin Theater am Schiffbauerdamm, in which he also performed the first public performance of the song, "Mack the Knife". With the show's international success, Gerron's name and recorded voice became well known across Europe.
Under the Nazis
After the 1933 seizure of power by the Nazis (known today as the
After the
In 1944, Gerron was coerced into directing a
All known complete prints of Gerron's final film, which was to have been called
On Friday June 17 2022 a Stolperstein for Kurt Gerron and one for his wife, Olga Gerson were installed at Paulsborner Strasse 77, Berlin, their last residence in Germany.
Selected filmography
- The Haunting of Castle Kitay (1920)
- Varieté(1925)
- Semi-Silk (1925)
- Upstairs and Downstairs (1925)
- Oh Those Glorious Old Student Days (1925)
- White Slave Traffic(1926)
- The Three Mannequins (1926)
- Annemarie and Her Cavalryman (1926)
- Love's Joys and Woes (1926)
- Vienna - Berlin(1926)
- His Greatest Bluff (1927)
- Marie's Soldier (1927)
- The Bordello in Rio (1927)
- Dancing Vienna (1927)
- The Most Beautiful Legs of Berlin (1927)
- Benno Stehkragen (1927)
- Always Be True and Faithful (1927)
- Queen of the Boulevards (1927)
- Endangered Girls (1927)
- A Crazy Night (1927)
- A Serious Case (1927)
- The Lady with the Tiger Skin (1927)
- Break-in (1927)
- The Tragedy of a Lost Soul (1927)
- The White Spider (1927)
- Assassination (1927)
- The Transformation of Dr. Bessel (1927)
- The Duty to Remain Silent (1928)
- Casanova's Legacy (1928)
- Yacht of the Seven Sins (1928)
- Mariett Dances Today (1928)
- Life's Circus (1928)
- Under Suspicion (1928)
- Immorality (1928)
- The White Hell of Pitz Palu (1929)
- Revolt in the Batchelor's House (1929)
- We Stick Together Through Thick and Thin (1929)
- Diary of a Lost Girl (1929)
- Daughter of the Regiment (1929)
- People on Sunday (1930)
- Burglars (1930)
- Fairground People (1930)
- Dolly Gets Ahead (1930)
- Love in the Ring (1930)
- The Blue Angel (1930)
- The Three from the Filling Station (1930)
- Bombs on Monte Carlo (1931)
- My Wife, the Impostor (1931)
- Madame Pompadour (1931)
- Her Majesty the Barmaid (1931)
- A Night at the Grand Hotel (1931)
- Salto Mortale (1931)
- Road to Rio (1931)
- No Money Needed (1932)
- The White Demon (1932)
- Two in a Car (1932)
- Things Are Getting Better Already (1932)
- Narcotics (1932)
- A Mad Idea (1932)
- Today Is the Day (1933)
- Merijntje Gijzens Jeugd (Netherlands, 1936)
- The Three Wishes (Netherlands, 1937)
- The Three Wishes (Italy, 1937)
Documentaries about Gerron
Gerron is the subject of three documentary films,
References
- ^ Schoeps, Karl-Heinz (2004). "Introduction". Literature and Film in the Third Reich. Camden House. p. 3.
[Kurt Gerron] arrived in the concentration camp of Theresienstadt in 1944 and was forced by the SS to stage the review Karussell (Carousel)...
- ^ Gardner, Lyn (1 June 2001). "Laugh or We Shoot". The Guardian. Retrieved 25 March 2013.
- OCLC 1134074119.)
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- ^ Herbert Thomas Mandl "Spuren nach Theresienstadt / Tracks to Terezín" - Interview and director: Herbert Gantschacher; camera: Robert Schabus; editor: Erich Heyduck. ARBOS Vienna-Salzburg 2007
- ^ Roy-Kift.com - Willkommen! at www.roy-kift.com
"Prisoner of Paradise" by PBS, 2003, 100 mins, not rated.
Fictional biography by Charles Lewinsky (Swiss, in German) Gerron, 2011, French translation Retour indésirable, Grasset, 2013.[1]
External links
- Kurt Gerron at IMDb
- Photographs of Kurt Gerron
- Availability for educational use of "The Fuehrer Gives the Jews a City"
- ^ Johanna Lier (2011-09-22). "Himmlisches Schmierentheater" (in German). WOZ Die Wochenzeitung Nr. 38/2011 vom 22.09.2011. Retrieved 2015-09-26.